The jury of DOM3 Prize 2016

Based on a long experience in residential architecture and familiar with large-scale buildings, architects Cruz and Ortiz deploy new compositional registers. Thus, as time progresses, their work reflects an increasing complexity.

In tune with the eclectic and contextual sensitivity of Moneo, Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have developed one of the strongest track records of the Spanish architectural scene. Based on the orthogonal grid that gives their buildings a serene and timeless condition, the continuous line linking the first decades of their work takes a different path in recent projects with the use of adventurous geometries and renewed spatial fluidity.

Following their beginnings with works in Spain, their activity has spread to several European countries like Germany, Switzerland and Holland. In these recent years they have developed projects of very different scales. Among the most prominent are the High Speed station of Santa Justa in Seville, the Peineta stadium, in Madrid, the Estadio de La Cartuja, in Seville, the railway station of Basel in Switzerland and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Other relevant works of Cruz and Ortiz Arquitectos have been the Spanish Pavilion in the Universal Exhibition of Hannover and the Public Library Infanta Elena in Seville.

Their office is currently responsible forthe design and construction of the new stadium of Club Atlético de Madrid based on the Peineta project.

Rafael de La-Hoz (1955, Cordoba, Spain) graduated as an Architect in the ETSAM. For two decades now, Rafael has been running his own architecture studio, a very active firm with great international projection.

Well aware of the evolution of architecture in the city and environmentally conscious, he has achieved the LEED PLATINUM certificate in green building (known worldwide) for some of his projects as well as many other national and international awards such as the MIPIM Award 'for the best building in the world', the International Biennial of Buenos Aires or the American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum (USA).

He currently works as an architect from his professional study. Co-founder member of the study GG2 architects (visit website). During recent years, GG2 architects have implemented a vision of architecture understood from the qualities of space, proportion, light and materiality, in a wide range of scales of intervention.

Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra handles scale and proportion in buildingswith great care. One can sense well-balance spaces meant to be lived in. Arising out of an intelligent interpretation of the program, guided by a concern to rationalize the construction process, he offers brilliant and virtuous resolution of minor problems through constructive detail always supported on the logic of their construction. In his most recent projects, his forms have become more radical, enriching their expressive registers, evolving into a more complex architecture in which the impact and strength of his creations preserving his sensitivity and allowing him to retain his personality.